Still failure but now it is different.
Completely wiped out Pkg.dir()
Reinstalled the latest version 0.3 from julialang.org.
Then I only addressed what I care for now:
julia> Pkg.add("Requests")
... lots of chatter but sucess!
julia> using Requests
Warning: redefining constant iculib
julia> request = get("http://www.microsoft.com")
WARNING: convert{T}(p::Type{Ptr{T}},a::Array) is deprecated, use
convert(p,point
er(a)) instead.
in depwarn at deprecated.jl:36
Response(302 Moved Temporarily, 16 Headers, 140 Bytes in Body)
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